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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.303
People
Attributed to Chokha, Indian
Title
Maharana Bhim Singh of Mewar Ties His Turban
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1810
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan, Mewar
Culture
Indian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/190502

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
28 x 37.5 cm (11 x 14 3/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr.
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.303
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This painting depicts Maharana Bhim Singh of Mewar (r. 1778-1828) in his personal chambers. He sits, barechested, on a chair on an elevated platform. He ties a turban around his head as he watches himself doing so in the mirror that an attendant holds up. The walls of the chamber are decorated with blue and white porceilan tiles.


This painting was executed before Bhim Singh became the first maharana of the Princely State of Udaipur.

Publication History

  • Anna Jackson, Amin Jaffer, and Deepika Ahlawat, ed., Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Court, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2009), pp 89, fig. 70
  • Debra Diamond and Dipti Khera, A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur, Hirmer Publishers and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Washington, D.C., 2022), cat. 22, pp. 136-137, 392

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 06/08/2000 - 09/03/2000
  • Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 10/10/2009 - 01/17/2010; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, 02/12/2010 - 05/24/2010
  • A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 11/19/2022 - 05/14/2023

Verification Level

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